Ensuring your employees follow all OSHA safety guidelines is vital for your business’s survival. Here’s how to keep everyone safe.
Read MoreBLTI Excited to Announce New OSHA Outreach Courses
Builders License Training Institute is happy to announce that it will now distribute OSHA Outreach online training course programs.
Read MoreOSHA 2020 Safety Stand-Down Resources
In 2018, 320 of the 1,008 construction fatalities were caused by falls from elevation. The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) wants to remind everyone that those deaths were preventable.
That’s why they provide resources and certification for employers to participate in the annual National Safety Stand-Down event, which aims to raise fall hazard awareness across the country in an effort to stop fall fatalities and injuries.
Read MoreOSHA Re-Opening FAQs
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a frequently asked questions and answer page on their website to help prevent COVID-19 exposure on the job.
Read MoreOSHA Tips for Staying Safe This Summer
OSHA and the US Department of Labor recently published a press release reminding both employers and employees to remember necessary precautions for working safely during summer months. Florida’s contractors are no strangers to sweltering summer temperatures, but dangerous heat exposure can occur anywhere if the conditions are right. When working in a warm environment, the […]
Read MoreConstruction Company Fined after Workers Burned by Scalding Oil
Nelcon Inc, a Montana construction company, faces $261,000 in fines after three workers were burned by hot oil at an asphalt plant in Laurel last fall. The safety citation stems from an Oct. 25 incident, where Nelcon employees suffered second and third degree burns while pouring oil into a heating container used for the asphalt-mixing process. The oil heated to 450 degrees reacted with cooler oil and spilled onto the workers.
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